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05-08-2020, 02:43 PM
9. What is hotlinking?
In a nutshell, hotlinking is directly linking to an image, video, or other file, found on someone else's web server. For example, if you saw an image that you like and you put the image on your weblog using the image URL source of that other person's site, then you are hotlinking. And, unless the owner of that site permits this, then you are stealing bandwidth, which is unacceptable. Click here for more info.
In a nutshell, hotlinking is directly linking to an image, video, or other file, found on someone else's web server. For example, if you saw an image that you like and you put the image on your weblog using the image URL source of that other person's site, then you are hotlinking. And, unless the owner of that site permits this, then you are stealing bandwidth, which is unacceptable. Click here for more info.